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Former FC Barcelona Women’s Coach and Saudi Arabia women’s National Team
Albert Puig: From Grassroots to Professional Soccer
Who Is This Course For?
Professional Coaches- Youth Academy Coaches
- Academy Managers
- Heads of Methodology
Why Choose this Course?
Immerse yourself in the course by Albert Puig and discover the techniques and philosophies that have shaped some of the world’s best football talents. Learn from a master of La Masía and transform your training approach to take your players from the foundations to the pinnacle of professional football.
Learn to manage the daily challenges of being a coach, from relationships with players and parents to the implementation of winning strategies at grassroots and professional level, with information and knowledge of how elite teams operate in terms of staff and weekly content planning to achieve the best possible results in the competition.
This course will not only give you a sporting perspective, but will also be a master’s degree in the philosophy of facing the challenges that any coach faces on a daily basis, to a greater or lesser extent, regarding their ideas and intentions for the game and the resources available to implement them, which often cause frustration in coaches.
Course Curriculum
- INTRODUCTION TO ALBERT PUIG
- Chapter 1: Albert Puig: Grassroots and Professional Soccer(6:38)
- DRESSING ROOM MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 2: Dressing Room Management at youth ages(19:44)
- Chapter 3: Dressing Room Management at professional level(21:56)
- THE GAME
- Chapter 4: Transferring ideas to reality(13:24)
- Chapter 5: The Match preparation(7:55)
- SPOTTING THE TALENT
- Chapter 6: Spotting the talent(19:13)
- THE REALITY
- Chapter 7: External factors at Elite Level(7:10)
- Chapter 8: Coaching Abroad: The Reality(11:46)
- Chapter 9: Ideal versus reality(4:51)
What you’ll Learn:
- The training philosophies of La Masía, the academy that shaped some of the world’s greatest footballers.
- Strategies to manage daily coaching challenges, including relationships with players, parents, and staff.
- The methodology of elite-level planning, from weekly training content to staff organization.
- How to build and implement winning strategies that work in both youth and professional environments.
- Insights into the mindset and philosophy that help coaches face frustration, pressure, and limited resources.
- Practical tools to stay true to your ideas and vision of the game, while adapting to real-world circumstances.
- Lessons from Albert Puig’s experience as a master of player development and high-performance coaching.